Appleton, Nathan, 1843-1906

Boston businessman.

From the description of Correspondence, 1850-1899. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19105740

Army officer and merchant.

From the description of Nathan Appleton papers, 1850-1904 (bulk 1876-1902). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455083

Biographical Note

• 1843, Feb. 2: Born, Boston, Mass.
• 1863: Graduated, Harvard College, Cambridge Mass. Commissioned junior second lieutenant of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery, Light Artillery, United States Volunteers
• 1864: Severely wounded in battle on the North Anna River in Virginia Resignation from army accepted; discharged for wounds
• 1864 - 1865 : Visited Europe
• 1865: Became volunteer aide-de-camp to Brigadier General C. S. Wainwright, commander of the Artillery Brigade of the Fifth Army Corps Brevetted captain to rank for gallantr
• 1869: Toured northern Europe, western Russia, and Turkey with General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks As delegate of the Boston Board of Trade to the opening of the Suez canal, first met Count Ferdinand de Lesseps
• 1872: Bowles Brothers and Co., of which Appleton was a member, collapsed with serious injury to his personal fortune
• 1875: Delegate, conference of the association for the codification and reform of the law of nations, Hague, Netherlands
• 1877: Published Centennial Movement, 1876: A comedy in Five Acts. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks President, Free Trade Conference, Saratoga, N.Y.
• 1878: Delegate, International Congress for the Unification of Weights, Measures, and Coinage, Paris, France
• 1879: Delegate, Interfic Canal Congress, Paris, France Elected president, United States Board of Trade
• 1880: Interpreter for Count Ferdinand de Lesseps on his tour of the United States
• 1881 - 1888 : American agent, Panama Canal Co.
• 1895: Traveled throughout Latin America
• 1887: Married Jeannette Ovington (separated 1889; divorced 1906)
• 1896: Visited Hawaii
• 1899: Member, Board of Overseers, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1904: Published Russian Life and Society as Seen in 1866-'67 by Appleton and Longfellow. Boston: [Press of Murray and Emery]
• 1905: Assisted at the peace conference culminating in the Treaty of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, N.H.
• 1906, Aug. 25: Died, Boston, Mass.

From the guide to the Nathan Appleton Papers, 1850-1904, (bulk 1876-1902), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)